The Water-Babies - Softcover

Kingsley, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1540619621 ISBN 13: 9781540619624

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The Water-Babies is a classic Fairy Tale by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Created in 1862–63 and since then has become one of the best loved stories ever told. This is a high quality new print edition of a classic timeless tale.

About this title

About the Author:

Author and Anglican clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819–75) took an active interest in the plight of the working class and was a co-founder of England's Christian Socialist movement. In addition to writing novels, poetry, sermons, political essays, and children's stories, Kingsley taught history at Cambridge University, served as chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to the Prince of Wales, and was appointed canon of Westminster Abbey.A prominent American artist during the Golden Age of Illustration, Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935) contributed to many popular magazines of the era, including Century, Collier's, and Harper's. In the course of her longtime association with Good Housekeeping, she created all of the periodical's covers from 1917 to 1933. Smith illustrated more than 60 books, among them Little Women and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Review:

''Everyone who has an interest in the exuberant, eclectic, ecological, and erotic aspects of Victorian literature should know this book . . . [A] delightful and important work of Victorian children's literature.'' --Naomi Wood, Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1540619621
• ISBN 13: 9781540619624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130